466 Assembly Proceedings, April 13-May 6, 1761.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 28

The Petition of sundry Inhabitants of Frederick County, com-
plaining of an undue Election, was Read the first time and ordered
to lie on the Table. Read the second Time, and referred to the
next Session of Assembly.

Mr. Hammond, from the Committee appointed to join the
Members of the Upper House in an Address of Condolance and
Congratulation to his Majesty, brings in the following Report :
By the Members of the Honourable the Lower House of As-
sembly, nominated to join with the Members appointed by the
Upper House in drawing an Address of Condolance and Con-
gratulation to his Majesty.

In Obedience to an Order of your Honourable House of Satur-
day the 25th Instant, we humbly report, That on Friday the 17th
Instant it was intimated from Four of the Gentlemen of your
House, to one of the Gentlemen of the Upper House, that they were
desirous a Form should be laid before the Gentlemen of your House
for their Consideration, by the Gentlemen of that House; that
accordingly on the Evening of the same Day was communicated
to Three of those Gentlemen, the following, viz.
To the King's most Excellent Majesty.
The humble Address of the Governor, and the Upper and Lower
Houses of Assembly of the Province of Maryland.
May it please your Majesty,

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Deeply affected with the severe Loss we in common with our
Fellow- Subjects have sustained by the Death of our late most
Excellent King, of happy Memory, whose paternal Care the In-
habitants of these Colonies have in the amplest Manner experienced,
in the Course of his long, mild, just and glorious Reign, favourably
permit us, most Gracious Sovereign, to condole with your Majesty,
that melancholy Event; but we should not approve ourselves in any
Respect worthy of the indulgent Protection of Providence did we
not derive, and most thankfully acknowledge, the strongest Con-
solation from a Contemplation on the Eminent and Royal Virtues,
which constitute and embellish the Character of a good King, and
give the best Assurance of a Continuance, under your Majesty's
Reign, of the invaluable Blessings we have so long enjoyed during
that of your illustrious Grandfather: With this Assurance, we join
in the general Joy which hath been diffused through all the ex-
tensive Dominions of Great-Britain, and with the greatest Humility
and purest Sincerity of Heart, beg Leave to congratulate your
Majesty upon your Accession to the Throne of your Ancestors.
May your Majesty be rendered happy by the Prosperity of a
free People, flourishing under the benign Influence of your aus-
picious Government, by a grateful and adequate Retribution in their
zealous Affection and firm Attachment to your Sacred Person, and